Is Text Messaging Making Subtitles Popular?

Interesting thought from Gagdet Lab.

"According to Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, the ubiquity of text messaging means that subtitled movies could gain acceptance. Granted, this is an extrapolation of one throwaway comment in a New York Times interview, but it does make an interesting point.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They’re not afraid of them. It’s one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

... The technology that really brought subtitles into the mainstream isn't the text message. It was the DVD, with its multiple language selections. Before that, you had no choice. You rented the VHS and shut up."

emily | 3:15 PM | News, Buzz |
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